{"id":129739,"date":"2024-06-06T12:04:00","date_gmt":"2024-06-06T16:04:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=129739"},"modified":"2024-06-06T17:47:03","modified_gmt":"2024-06-06T21:47:03","slug":"remembering-d-day-the-poem-for-the-fallen-by-robert-laurence-binyon-1869-1943-3","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=129739","title":{"rendered":"Remembering D-Day&#8211;The Poem &#8220;For the Fallen&#8221; by Robert Laurence Binyon (1869-1943)"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>They went with songs to the battle, they were young,<br>Straight of limb, true of eye, steady and aglow.<br>They were staunch to the end against odds uncounted;<br>They fell with their faces to the foe.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>They shall grow not old, as we that are left grow old:<br>Age shall not weary them, nor the years condemn.<br>At the going down of the sun and in the morning<br>We will remember them.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/allpoetry.com\/For-The-Fallen\">Read it all<\/a>.<\/p><blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\"><p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">D-Day, exactly 80 [&#8230;] years ago. The fight for freedom and democracy was brought to North-West Europe. (<a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/OTD?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">#OTD<\/a> in 1944, Utah Beach. Two medics from American 4 Infantry Division, administering a saline drip. <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/WW2?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">#WW2<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/HISTORY?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">#HISTORY<\/a>) <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/CLy4QA1tpw\">pic.twitter.com\/CLy4QA1tpw<\/a><\/p>&mdash; RG Poulussen (@rgpoulussen) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/rgpoulussen\/status\/1798590467720036556?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">June 6, 2024<\/a><\/blockquote> <script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>They went with songs to the battle, they were young,Straight of limb, true of eye, steady and aglow.They were staunch to the end against odds uncounted;They fell with their faces to the foe. They shall grow not old, as we<span class=\"ellipsis\">&hellip;<\/span><\/p>\n<div class=\"read-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=129739\">Read more &#8250;<\/a><\/div>\n<p><!-- end of .read-more --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":794,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[143,133,106,113],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-129739","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-defense-national-security-military","category-history","category-military-armed-forces","category-poetry-literature"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/129739","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/794"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=129739"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/129739\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":129741,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/129739\/revisions\/129741"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=129739"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=129739"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=129739"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}